Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack Ritenour () er ein USA-amerikansk jazzgitarist som har vore aktiv sidan seint i 1960-åra.

17 år gammal arbeidde han med Lena Horne og Tony Bennett. 

Ritenour gav ut det første soloalbumet sitt, First Course (1976), som var dominert av jazzfunk, etterfølgd av Captain Fingers, The Captain's Journey (1978) og Feel the Night (1979).

I 1979 deltok han på innspelinga av Pink Floyd-albumet The Wall, på songane «Run Like Hell» og «One of My Turns».

Diskografi
Album
 Dato Tittel Selskap 1976 First Course Epic 1977 Gentle Thoughts JVC 1977 Captain Fingers Epic  1977 Sugar Loaf Express JVC 1978 Friendship  Jasrac 1978 The Captain's Journey Elektra 1979 Rio GRP 1979 Feel the Night Discovery 1979 Friendship Elektra  1981 Rit Discovery 1982 Rit 2 Discovery 1983 On the Line GRP 1984 Banded Together Discovery 1985 Harlequin med Dave Grusin GRP  1986 Earth Run GRP  1987 Portrait GRP 1988 Festival GRP 1989 Color Rit GRP 1990 Stolen Moments GRP 1993 Wes Bound GRP 1995 Larry & Lee med Larry Carlton GRP 1997 Alive in L.A. GRP 1998 This Is Love I.E. Music 2000 Two Worlds Decca 2002 Rit's House GRP 2003 World Of Brazil GRP 2005 Overtime Peak 2006 Smoke 'n' Mirrors Peak 2008 Amparo med Dave Grusin Decca 2010 6 String Theory Concord 2012 Rhythm Sessions Concord 2015 A Twist of Rit Concord 2020 Dreamcatcher Mascot Label Group

Singlar
 Dato Tittel Plassering Liste (USA) 1981 Countdown Captain Fingers 43 Dance Is It You 15 Hot 100 1982 Cross My Heart 69 1993 Waiting in Vain (ft. Maxi Priest) 54 R&B 2007 Smoke 'n' Mirrors 27 Smooth Jazz Forget Me Nots 14 2010 Shape of My Heart (Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather & Andy McKee) 19 Put the Top Down (Dave Koz ft. Lee Ritenour) 1 2012 Roadtrip (Michael Lington ft. Lee Ritenour) 3 2013 The Village 3 L.A. by Bike 15 2015 A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That 5

Med Fourplay
 1991 Fourplay
 1993 Between the Sheets
 1995 Elixir
 1997 Best of Fourplay

Med L.A. Workshop
1988 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
1994 Norwegian Wood, vol. 2

Andre
 1977 «Strawberry Letter 23» from the album Right On Time by Brothers Johnson
 1987 Joyride - spor 6 «Midi Citi» - (En Pointe)
 1985 American Flyer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) med Greg Mathieson - GRP

Som sidemann
 Alphonse Mouzon – Mind Transplant (Blue Note, 1974)
 Peggy Lee - Let's Love (1974)
Brass Fever – Brass Fever (1975)
 Aretha Franklin - You (1975)
 Carly Simon - Playing Possum (1975)
 Oliver Nelson - Skull Session (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
 Art Garfunkel - Breakaway (1975)
 Barbra Streisand - Lazy Afternoon (1975)
 Alphonse Mouzon – The Man Incognito (Blue Note, 1975)
 Brass Fever – Time Is Running Out (1976)
 Leo Sayer - Endless Flight (1976)
 Frankie Valli - Valli (1976)
 Joe Henderson – Black Miracle (Milestone, 1976)
 Stephen Bishop - Careless (1976)
 Stanley Turrentine – Everybody Come On Out (Fantasy, 1976)
 Paul Anka - The Painter (1976)
 John Handy - Carnival (ABC/Impulse, 1977)
 Quincy Jones - Roots (A&M, 1977)
 Carole Bayer Sager - Carole Bayer Sager (1977)
 Kenny Loggins - Celebrate Me Home (1977)
 Natalie Cole - Thankful (1977)
 Dizzy Gillespie – Free Ride (1977)
 Bette Midler - Broken Blossom (1977)
 Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart (1977)
 Lalo Schifrin – Rollercoaster (1977)
 John Denver - I Want to Live (1977)
 B.B. King - King Size (1977)
 Aretha Franklin - Sweet Passion (1977)
 Paulinho da Costa – Agora (Pablo/Concord, 1977)
 Eddie Henderson – Comin' Through (Capitol, 1977)
 David «Fathead» Newman - Keep the Dream Alive (Prestige, 1978)
 Herb Alpert - Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela (Horizon, 1978)
 Carole Bayer Sager - ...Too (1978)
 Ben E. King - Let Me Live in Your Life (1978)
 Melissa Manchester - Don't Cry Out Loud (1978)
 Barbra Streisand - Songbird (1978)
 Livingston Taylor - Three Way Mirror (1978)
 Barry Manilow - Even Now (1978)
 Glen Campbell - Basic (1978)
 Pink Floyd – The Wall (Harvest/EMI, 1979)
 Yvonne Elliman - Yvonne (1979)
 Art Garfunkel - Fate for Breakfast (1979)
 Syreeta Wright - Syreeta (1980)
 George Benson - Give Me the Night (1980)
 Barbra Streisand - Guilty (1980)
 Neil Sedaka - In the Pocket (1980)
 Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever (1980)
 Carole Bayer Sager - Sometimes Late at Night (1981)
 Carly Simon - Torch (1981)
 Sarah Vaughan - Songs of The Beatles (1981)
 Roberta Flack - I'm the One (1982)
 Neil Diamond - Heartlight (1982)
 Grover Washington Jr. – The Best Is Yet to Come (Elektra, 1982)
 Carole King - Speeding Time (1983)
 Sheena Easton - A Private Heaven (1984)
 Melissa Manchester - Mathematics (1985)
 Diane Schuur - Schuur Thing (1985)
 Olivia Newton-John - Soul Kiss (1985)
 Patti Austin - Love Is Gonna Getcha (1990)
 Karimata – Jezz (1991), berre på «Rainy Days and You»
GRP All-Star Big Band – GRP All-Star Big Band (1992)
 Patti Austin - That Secret Place (1994)
 Natalie Cole - Stardust (1996)
 Diana DeGarmo - Blue Skies (2004)
 Brenda Russell - Between the Sun and the Moon (2004)
 George Benson - Songs and Stories (2009)

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